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Newly uncovered Project 2025 training videos spark concern
Leaked #Project2025 videos reveal #RepublicanExtremists plans for federal overhaul while Trump distances himself from it's scrutiny
Broader policy goals outlined in Project 2025's extensive "Mandate for Leadership" document, which proposes sweeping changes such as eliminating the Department of Education, cutting Medicaid & making it easier to fire & replace career civil servants #RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica https://www.newsweek.com/newly-uncovered-project-2025-training-videos-spark-concern-1937635 -
There was the 2017 shooting of US Rep Steve #Scalise & colleagues by a #Trump detractor. There was the hammer attack on US Rep Nancy #Pelosi’s husband by a #RightWing #conspiracy theorist who sought the then House speaker in her home. Then there were #threats by #RepublicanExtremists against #Republican members of Congress for refusing to support their preferred candidate for speaker. These acts grabbed headlines & spurred increases in #security for federal ofcls.
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New from the Brennan Ctr
#Intimidation of #State & #Local Officeholders
The #Jan6 #insurrection …seemed to mark a new peak in #extremist intimidation targeting public ofcls. But it was hardly the only act of #PoliticalViolence to break the period of relative stability that followed the assassinations of the 1960s.
#NationalSecurity #Justice #law #legal #UnitedStates #PublicService #democracy #Trump #extremism #RepublicanExtremists #Republicans
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/intimidation-state-and-local-officeholders